Pen-holder



(N Model.)

J. DOYLE.

PEN HOLDER.

N0:249230. Patented Nov. 8,1881.

UNITED STATES JOHN DYLE, OF HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY, ssG1ro1 oI ONE-HALF tno. ooms DUSENBURY, OF WHITE PLANS, NEW -YORK.

PEN-HLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Pa.teni No. 249,230, datedNovember 8, 1881.

ing is e speeifieation.

'lhis invention is more especially.designed for use with gold pens, sotermed; and its object is to prevent injury to the point of the pen incase the letter is dropped or otherwise roughly used.

T0 this endthe invention exnhraes eertain novel combinations of parts,whereby the desired object is effeetually aeoomplished.

Figure 1 is a side view of a. pen and bolder, inoluding my saidinvenbi0n; and Fig. 2 is a top view with a portion removed. Figs. 3 and4 are longitudinal seetional views of the same in planes i: right anglesto eaeh other.

A is the pen, made preferahly of gold, end of intrinsic value and goodworkmanship, and attached by anysuitable meansas, for ex ample, a curvedslot formed to receive the i11- ner end or shankof the pen-to the onterend of a cylindrical slide, B, whieh is plaeed within a oylindriealbolder, O. Extended from the inner end of this slide B to-the oppositeor ouler end of the holder 0 is a spiral spring, D, which tends t0 drawinward the slide and consequently the pen. The opposite or outer end ofthe slide is elongated, as shown als al, and oonstrueted to receive tl1epen, as hereinhefore indieated. The slide has formed in il; alongitudinal slot, a and formed in the bolder is u slot,b, ooincident inpositin with the slot a.

-Pivoted in suitable proxirnity to the slots a and 11 is asemihylindrioal leaf, E, which is external to the holder, and isprovided with a narrow longitudinal tongue, 0, on its inner side, whiohsnid tongue projeots throngh the slot 1) in the holder into and thrcughthe slot; en of the slide. lhis tongue 0 is so shiped at; its o uter andunder side as to constitnte a aam, Which heers against the outennost endof the slot 0! in the slide in such marmer tliat when pressed inwardradially into the slot en the said tongue will force the slidelongitudinally outward, and when released flom said inwardmovementwillpermil: the spiral spring Application filed Mnich 22, 1881.(No model.)

toretraet the slide longitudinallyin a.n opposte directon.

Aifixed to the end of the helder adjacent to the pen is a guard, F,which projeets forward and parallel with the pen over th same, end

somewhatsay one-eighth of en inch-beyond the tip or point of the penwhen the letter is retracted by the inward mo"enent of the slide. Theeamlike sh2ppe of the tongue of the leef is si1eh 21s not only to enablethe inward movementof the leaf to project theslide, and 0011 seqnentlythe pen, in a forward direetion, bui; conversely, so as also to enablethe slide, when retraoted by the spring, to push ontward the tongne andleafin a radial direetion when the latter is relieved from pressnre.

In the use -and operation of the invention, the holder is grasped in thesame wanner as the commonpenholder is held :for writing, except that theforefinger or thunnb is placed on the leaf and presses the same radiellyinward, as hereinbefore set forth. This projects forward the slide untilthe pen is bronghi:

with its tip or point suffieiently beyond the extremity of the guard toenable the pen to be nsed for writing without hinderanee, this portionof the pen being maintained by the constan; pressnre of the forefingeror thumb upon the leaf dnring the operation of writing. As soon,however, as the forefinger or thunnb is removed from the leaf as, forexample, when the irnplement is aeeidentally dropped to the floor, 0rwhen it; is laid aside pending further use, or when it is smply plaeedin the pooketthe spring retraets the slide until the pen is broughtwholly within the guard, so that the extremity of the letter, projeetingbeyond the point of the pen,-effeetually proteets the pen from injury.It; is to be observed that, inasmuch as the shield is located only atthe back of the pen instead of snrrounding the same, a very slightmovement-say from one-eighth to three-sixteenths of en inch-issuffieient to project the letter a. distance snffieient; to permit itsuse in writing.

NVhat I claim as m y invention s- --1. The combinaoion of the hollowbolder 0, a guard on said bolder arranged to project over the pen, theslide B, constructed to earry the pen A, and the pvoted leef E,connectedwith placed t0 projectfrom the bolder over theback 10 the slide bymechansm, substantially as deof the pen and substantially paralleltherascrbed, t0 gve movement 130 the sad.slide with, all substantally asand fox the purpose with reference to the guard, substantially 21s herenset forth. and fox the purpose herein set; forth.

2. The combination of the retractle pen A, attached to the slotted sldeB, the slotted Wtnesses: bolder O,the spring D, tl1e pvoted leaf E,hav-ROBERT W. MAT'1HEWS, ing the cam-like tongue 0, and the guard F, THOMASE. ROSSMAN.

JOHN DOYLE.

